First-time asylum applicants in European Union
The European Union received 672,350 first-time asylum applications in 2025.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
672,350
Change from 2024
−26.3%
First-time asylum applicants in European Union over time
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People. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 672,350 applicants |
| 2024 | 912,835 applicants |
| 2023 | 1,049,905 applicants |
| 2022 | 874,035 applicants |
| 2021 | 536,270 applicants |
| 2020 | 415,475 applicants |
| 2019 | 629,230 applicants |
| 2018 | 564,905 applicants |
| 2017 | 620,465 applicants |
| 2016 | 1,167,075 applicants |
| 2015 | 1,217,185 applicants |
| 2014 | 530,970 applicants |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −26.3% from 912,835 applicants in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 1,217,185 applicants, the figure has changed by −44.8%.
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